Last week was spring break, so my thought was that I would kind of "ease into it." It worked pretty well. I was working by 9 am every morning, so that's an hour improvement right there. I definitely felt more productive throughout the week, so I'm pleased with that.

Today was going to be the more difficult day. I was going to be up by 6:30, sending my kid out the door by 7:30 and working by 8. Wellll.... it's 9 am and I'm writing so it's not as bad as it was before. But I found myself stomping off to go lie down a little longer at 7:30 rather than heading into the kitchen to start my coffee.

I see some success and I can identify the obstacles, so maybe I can still make this work.

First off, I'm working at 9 instead of 10, so that's still a victory, even if it's a small one. Just like any other behavioral change plan, you have to celebrate the small successes, so yay me! (haha) Secondly, I went to bed waaaaaay too late last night. Then once I got to bed, I had a really hard time getting to sleep. While I don't know of any way to force myself to go to sleep (at least any that I'm willing to try), I do need to work on getting to bed earlier.

Tomorrow I have to be up early because I have an IEP meeting for my son scheduled for 7:30 am. Yuck. It's not going to be a productive day in general though... too many appointments. But hopefully it will help with the overall schedule reset. I'll update in another week and we'll see where I'm at.

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I found that I became much more productive once I started getting up around 6:30 every morning, which I've been doing for over three months now. So productive, in fact, that I'm worn out by bed time and fall asleep more quickly than I used to!

I've found that when I get up, I am actually more productive in the morning. In the afternoon (especially after 3 when my son gets home) there are far too many distractions and concerns. I think I pretty much need to plan for my workday to end at 3.

I also discovered another problem that was leading to my issues with productivity. I'm trying to decide if I want to post about it or not.